<p>Ramen is heating up. No, not the meal well known to hungry entrepreneurs and hackers, but a Boulder, CO-based startup of the same name.</p><p>Ramen, which is just a few months old and has won a major hackathon, said Monday it has raised a seed round and has begun courting customers.</p><p>So what does Ramen do? In the words of co-founder and chief technology officer Ryan Angilly, it is a crowdfunding site for software developers that helps them raise money and fosters collaboration between startups and customers.</p><p>Ramen "helps software startups find their first customers, and then not only get a check from those customers, but to work with them to develop [a minimum viable product] as fast as possible," Angilly said.</p><p><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/boulder-denver/2014/02/26/ramen-raises-cash-for-crowdfunding-and-collaboration-software/">Keep reading...</a></p>